24 — 26 April 1905

ON THE QUESTION OF THE LEGALITY OF THE CONGRESS.
[24 — 26 April 1905]

Document "a" represents point 5 of the resolution adopted at the final (24 April 1905) session of the Organizational Committee. (See the report of Zemlya (Krasin) on the activities of the O.C., Protocols of the 3rd Congress, p. 45.)

This same point in its fundamental positions entered into the resolution on the question of the legality of the congress, proposed by Belsky, Markov, and Kuznetsov at the 5th session (Protocols, p. 65), and adopted by the congress (Protocols, p. 57).

The "Outline of My Speech" presented below (document "G") represents a draft of the plan of Lenin's speech at the 3rd session of the congress — 26 April on the question of the legality of the congress. (Protocols of the congress, pp. 60 — 61.)

5.

RESOLUTION OF THE O.C. ON THE LEGALITY OF THE CONGRESS.
[24 April 1905]

Concerning that point of the agreement between the Central Committee and the Bureau of Committees of the Bolsheviks, according to which the congress is opened upon the presence of 30 delegates from Russian committees, the Organizational Committee resolves:

Both sides that composed the Organizational Committee understand the sense of this point to mean that it was necessary for both the Central Committee and the Bureau of Committees of the Bolsheviks to undertake the most energetic measures toward the fullness of representation at the congress, as well as toward guaranteeing before the party that the representation of the Central Committee and the Bureau of Committees